This post celebrates the professional and moral “victory” that Professor Antonella Delfino Pesce can now celebrate today, January 15, 2026, after nearly ten years of investigations.
Our lecturer in “Criminalistics of Investigation,” consultant to the family of the 24-year-old woman killed in Chiavari in 1996, succeeded in having the investigation into a murder — a cold case destined to remain unsolved — reopened.
Only the determination of Nada’s mother, Silvana Smaniotto, and the expertise of our criminologist, Professor Antonella Pesce Delfino, made it possible—nearly 29 years after the brutal murder—to bring the case to trial before the Court of Assizes in Genoa, which sentenced Anna Lucia Cecere to 24 years in prison and Marco Soracco to 2 years for aiding and abetting.
Proud to have her among us, we all extend our congratulations to Professor Antonella Pesce Delfino and thank her for the service she has rendered to society as a whole—one that believes in a truly fair and just system of justice.
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